Quote by George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Its not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. – Jimmy Carter

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Conformity, humility, acceptance… with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. – Robert Lindner