But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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