Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Quote by George Eliot

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence 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...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

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

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

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...

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.

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure