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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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