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 ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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