Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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