Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTOf 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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