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.
GEORGE ELIOTLife began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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 do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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