"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
George Eliot"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
George Eliot"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
George Eliot"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
George Eliot"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
George Eliot"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
George Eliot"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
George Eliot"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
George Eliot"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
George Eliot"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
George Eliot"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot"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."
George Eliot"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
George Eliot"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
George Eliot"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."
George Eliot"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
George Eliot"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
George Eliot"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
George Eliot"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
George Eliot"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
George Eliot"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
George Eliot"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
George Eliot"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
George Eliot"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
George Eliot"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
George Eliot"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
George Eliot"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."
George Eliot"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot