I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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