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.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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