The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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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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“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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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