Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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