It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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