Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I 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.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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