What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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It 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.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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