Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTGenius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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“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.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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