Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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