The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTThat 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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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