The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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