Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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