But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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