It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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