Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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