Discipleship Quote by George Eliot

““My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.””

George Eliot

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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