It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTThose who trust us educate us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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