Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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