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.
GEORGE ELIOTJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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 have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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