The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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