What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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