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
- 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.
- 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.
- The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Best Quotes
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- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
- I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
- I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.