Quote by George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! - George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot

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Marriage
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

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Ego
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Grief
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Other Quotes from
Helping
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The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Helping

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

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Helping

Live simply that others might simply live. – Elizabeth Ann Seton

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Helping

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. – Samuel Johnson

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Helping

Random Quotes

Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and childrens faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. – Sara Teasdale

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Nature

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

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Hypocrisy

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Selfishness