Wisdom Quotes
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George Eliot Quotes

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It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

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[W]hat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

- George Eliot

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- George Eliot

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

- George Eliot

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

- George Eliot

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[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

- George Eliot

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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

- George Eliot

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Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

- George Eliot

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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

- George Eliot

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

- George Eliot

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

- George Eliot

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