“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 ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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