Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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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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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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