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 ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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 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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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