Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT
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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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