Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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