Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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