Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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