Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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