We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTLife began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What 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.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing 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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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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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