Trouble’s made us kin.
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.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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