Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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