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.
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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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