Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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