I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOTIf you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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