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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Wisdom
Pity
Will
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Marriage
Sympathy
Conquest
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Love
Marriage
Children
Duty
Symbol
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
Life
Glory
Killing
Murder
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
Knowledge
Ignorance
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot
Circumstance
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot
Progress
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
Rain
Roses
Trees
Want
Will
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.
George Eliot
Hunger
Longing
Wishing
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
Love
Friends
Old
Words
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
Being
Man
Woman
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
Life
Mother
Waking
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
Life
Wealth
Excellence
Spiritual
World
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
Soul
Belief
Unbelief
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
Soul
Influence