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.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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