There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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