It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTA good horse makes short miles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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 are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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