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.
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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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