Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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