I 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.
GEORGE ELIOTIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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