I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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