It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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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.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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