Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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