It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTOnly in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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 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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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