Trouble’s made us kin.
GEORGE ELIOT
GEORGE ELIOT
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
George EliotGeorge Eliot “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.
George EliotGeorge Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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.
George EliotGeorge Eliot What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George EliotGeorge Eliot I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
George EliotGeorge Eliot It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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 EliotGeorge Eliot 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 EliotGeorge Eliot What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George EliotGeorge Eliot I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
George EliotGeorge Eliot What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
George EliotGeorge Eliot
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