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
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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