We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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