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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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