I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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