Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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 a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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