It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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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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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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