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.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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