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.
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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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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