Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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