Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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