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.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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 a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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