George Eliot Quotes About Sympathy
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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.
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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.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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.
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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