The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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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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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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