… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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