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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

George Eliot

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Good Horse Make Miles Short
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT

City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Be Late Meant never To Too
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOT

Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

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