It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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