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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot
Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely
George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot
Marriage, Sympathy, Relation
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Hurt, Hands
George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Heart, Shelter
GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot
Sympathy, People, Depth

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Expression, Certain
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

George Eliot
Sympathy, Heart, Men
George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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