Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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 painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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