The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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