Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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