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.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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