Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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