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 ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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