We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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There 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.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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