No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Quote by George Eliot

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...