Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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