What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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