It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTLife seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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