To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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