The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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