The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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