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 ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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