When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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