Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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