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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
More George Eliot Quotes
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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