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 ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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