Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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