The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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