Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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