I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTA friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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