Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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