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.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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