“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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