Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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 years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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