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 ELIOT
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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