It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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