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.
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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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