People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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