It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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 desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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