Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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