To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
More Quotes from George Eliot:
When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful....
George Eliot
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
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