One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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