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.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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