People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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“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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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