The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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The 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.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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