She 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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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