Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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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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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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