One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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