But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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