Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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I 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.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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