Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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 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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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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 is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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