We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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 carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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