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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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