Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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 destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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