We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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