Author Topic: ~ George Eliot Quotes ~ (Read 4464 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:22:34 PM »

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:22:59 PM »

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:23:23 PM »

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:23:48 PM »

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:24:16 PM »

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:24:41 PM »

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:25:06 PM »

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:25:31 PM »

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2014, 12:25:51 PM »

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:48:13 AM »

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:50:44 AM »

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:52:40 AM »

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to revere.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:54:26 AM »

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:55:20 AM »

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** August 07, 2014, 10:56:24 AM »

There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.

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