We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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 a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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