Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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.
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