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 ELIOTThe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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