Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Quote by George Eliot
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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George Eliot Quotes
- Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
- Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- 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.
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Best Quotes
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.