Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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“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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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