The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTYour trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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