People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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