It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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