Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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