The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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