We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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