Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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 never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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 sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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