We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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