Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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