It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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 have recovered hope.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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