We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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