The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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