“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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