The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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If 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.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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