Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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 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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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 like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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Will 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.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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