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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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