There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? 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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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