A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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