The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTJustice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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 important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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