I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTLife 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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