Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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