The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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 sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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