The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Will 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.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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