What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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 desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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