Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
More George Eliot Quotes
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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