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Quote by George Eliot
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. – George Eliot

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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George Eliot
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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George Eliot
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The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except where actions are performed as worship of God. – Hindu Spiritual

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Reverence

I know reverence sound far out, but think back to the best boss youve ever worked for or the best team youve ever worked on or the best subordinates youve ever worked with. Tell me; was there reverence in that situation? – Jack Hawley

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Reverence

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. – Albert Schweitzer

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Reverence

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil. – Albert Schweitzer

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Reverence

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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