Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
Quote by George Eliot
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
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George Eliot Quotes
- I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
- 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.
- Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Best Quotes
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- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
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