We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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