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 ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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