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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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