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

Quote by George Eliot

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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...