Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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