A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.George Eliot
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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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