I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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