“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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