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Day Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving…
- Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet…
- My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with…
- We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong