Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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