George Eliot

George Eliot

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
153 Quotes
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
George Eliot
"Tis what I love determines how I love."
George Eliot
"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."
George Eliot
"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds."
George Eliot
"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
George Eliot
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it."
George Eliot
"Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking."
George Eliot
"Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
George Eliot
"Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!"
George Eliot
"Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly."
George Eliot
"Those who trust us educate us."
George Eliot
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
George Eliot
"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
George Eliot
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
George Eliot
"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
George Eliot
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
George Eliot
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
George Eliot
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
George Eliot
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
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