It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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