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.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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