Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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