Quote by George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not th

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

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Fight, Fighting
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. – George Eliot

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Other Quotes from
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. – Edward W. Howe

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Hurt, Injury

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? – Albert Camus

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Hurt, Injury

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! — what worthy man does not keep those in mind? – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Hurt, Injury

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