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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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