Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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