A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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