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.
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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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