That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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