Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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