If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT
My 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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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