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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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