My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
George Eliot quote Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot quote People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot quote Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot quote Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot quote Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot quote Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
George Eliot quote More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot quote Biography
1819 - 1880 - English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time
