We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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I 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.
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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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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