The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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