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.
GEORGE ELIOTJews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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