She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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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.
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