The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Consequences are unpitying.
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