I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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 has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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