Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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