No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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