Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOT
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
More George Eliot Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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