I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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