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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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