I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It 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.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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