One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

—George Eliot

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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the...

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

—George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.

—George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

—George Eliot

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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others—something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

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