Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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