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 ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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 could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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