It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It 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.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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