Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.


T. S. Eliot

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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
GEORGE ELIOT
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine o...
GEORGE ELIOT
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
GEORGE ELIOT
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are cer...
GEORGE ELIOT
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
GEORGE ELIOT
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
GEORGE ELIOT
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of ...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
GEORGE ELIOT
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear decei...
GEORGE ELIOT
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but...
GEORGE ELIOT
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...
GEORGE ELIOT
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT