She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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