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 ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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I 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.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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