Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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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 painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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