There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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After all, the true seeing 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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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