Quote by George Eliot
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. – Oscar Wilde

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. – E. R. Beadle

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