It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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