It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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