Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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“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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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.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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