The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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