What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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