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.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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