Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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