It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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