I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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