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.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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