One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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