The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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