The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The 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.
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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 as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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“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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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