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.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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