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.
GEORGE ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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 are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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