What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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