It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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