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George Eliot141 quotes“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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.
George EliotGeorge Eliot It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
George EliotGeorge Eliot There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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 EliotGeorge Eliot One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George EliotGeorge Eliot After all, the true seeing is within.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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.
George EliotGeorge Eliot Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George EliotGeorge Eliot It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
George EliotGeorge Eliot We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
George EliotGeorge Eliot 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.
George EliotGeorge Eliot In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
George EliotGeorge Eliot “Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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There is more you can do after you pray.
Adoniram Judson GordonAdoniram Judson Gordon It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists.
Adolph Guggenbuhl CraigAdolph Guggenbuhl Craig And the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
Adolph KolpingAdolph Kolping As interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
Adolf GallandAdolf Galland Perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
Adolf GallandAdolf Galland Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
Adolf GallandAdolf Galland Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
Adolf GallandAdolf Galland
