The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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