Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life 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.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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