It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOTIf you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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