It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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More George Eliot Quotes
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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