What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
More George Eliot Quotes
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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