Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT