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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And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? – George Eliot

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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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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. – Bertrand Russell

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