What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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 also to be told I am loved.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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