Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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