Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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