Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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 painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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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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