What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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