One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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