We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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