Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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