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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.

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.

George Eliot
Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot
Appreciation, Time, Book
George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot
Time, Opportunity, Men
George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

George Eliot
Time, Needs
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.153, Booklassic

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

George Eliot
Time, Spring, Flower
George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.49, George Eliot

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot
Time, Memories, Past
George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot
Running, Time, Travel
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

George Eliot
Time, Years, Mindfulness
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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 the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot
Time, Men, Ties
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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