The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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 is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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