People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with 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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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