One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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“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.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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