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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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