And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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