Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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