One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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