And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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