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 ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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