A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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