Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOT
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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