If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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