What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars 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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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