It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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