Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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