Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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