Quote by George Eliot
Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make

Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot

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Family
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. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form? – Giacomo Puccini

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Violins

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm – Leonard Bernstein

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Violins

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. – Victor Borge

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Violins

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. – Jean Rhys

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Violins

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When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. – Les Brown

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls. – Proverb

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Ruin and recovery are both from within. – Epictetus

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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