It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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