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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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