One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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