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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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