It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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