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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.


Charles W. Eliot

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GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the ...
GEORGE ELIOT What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great cal...
GEORGE ELIOT The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and wome...
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
GEORGE ELIOT Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own dep...
GEORGE ELIOT Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human ...
GEORGE ELIOT The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard ev...
GEORGE ELIOT Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-disconte...
GEORGE ELIOT One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
GEORGE ELIOT When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation a...
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