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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.

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.

George Eliot
Compassion, Joy, Suffering
George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

George Eliot
Grief, Silence, Suffering
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.427, Wordsworth Editions

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

George Eliot
Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness
George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

George Eliot
Women, Grace, Suffering
George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

George Eliot
Long, Secret, Suffering
George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.595, George Eliot

... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

George Eliot
Book, Suffering, Doubt
George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

George Eliot
Suffering, Morality, Motive
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.538, Wordsworth Editions

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