George Eliot Quotes About Progress

• My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Joy, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Progress, Literature, Heat

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  George Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Night

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2740, ShandonPress

• One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

  George Eliot

  Believe, Keys, Race

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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