It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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