The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTI like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
More George Eliot Quotes
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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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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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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