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.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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