Tag: George Eliot
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
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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.
George Eliot
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
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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