Quote by George Eliot
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. – Marian Wright Edleman

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Proverb

Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. – Elizabeth Dunphy

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