But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOTI don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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