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 ELIOTA 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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