The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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 deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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