The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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