Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTI like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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