The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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