What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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