It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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