Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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