People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous 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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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