Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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 to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Religious 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.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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