There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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