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 ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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