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 ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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