The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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