But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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