We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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She 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.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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