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 ELIOT
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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