There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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