Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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