Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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