Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTTo manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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 is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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