One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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