We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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