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.
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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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