The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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