Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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 do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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