The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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