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.
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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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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