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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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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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

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

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Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. – Gutzkow

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