It 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.
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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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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