We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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