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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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People 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.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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