Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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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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