Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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