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Thoughts Quotes by George Eliot
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
- Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all…
- For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
- How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
- It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy…
- A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
- Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
- She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her…
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them…
- ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ...
More Thoughts Quotes
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba