There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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