Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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