Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. -George Eliot

 

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.


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This quote is just one of 49 total George Eliot quotes in our collection. George Eliot is known for saying 'Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.' as well as some of the following quotes.

We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

George Eliot

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

George Eliot