The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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I 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.
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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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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