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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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 narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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