Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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