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 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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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There 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.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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