It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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