Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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