A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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