We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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