It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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It 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.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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