Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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