Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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