Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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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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