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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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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Dissent
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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Illusion
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. – William Blake

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Illusion

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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Illusion

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

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Illusion

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusion

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I have an internal protectiveness where its like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where Im like, It could happen and Im okay, Im prepared. – Lena Headey

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Men

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. – Peter Abelard

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Eggs cannot be unscrambled. – American Proverb

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