We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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