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.
GEORGE ELIOTIn bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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