Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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