It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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