I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT
Enveloped 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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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