Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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