It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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