It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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there 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.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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