The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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