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 ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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