After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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