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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
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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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOT

Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT

Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOT

Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
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 ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Be Late Meant never To Too

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

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