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.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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