No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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 darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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