Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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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.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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