A 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.
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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTOf 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.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOTThe right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOTOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOTIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOTA good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
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