The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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 who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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