Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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