Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTConsequences are unpitying.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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