One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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 man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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