Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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