Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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 patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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