Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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I 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.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Of 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.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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