One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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