Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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