Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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