Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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