Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – 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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s 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 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.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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