British - Author | November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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