It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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