What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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