Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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