We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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