If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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