What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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 surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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