The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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