Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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