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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

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.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
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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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way

Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

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