Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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