What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Quote by George Eliot

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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation,...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation,...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.

All I am I owe to my mother.

All I am I owe to my mother.