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.
GEORGE ELIOT
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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