What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTWe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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 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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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