… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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