It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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