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.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Those who trust us educate us.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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