Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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 world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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