I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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 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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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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