No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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