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 ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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