To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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