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.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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