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.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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