One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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