The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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