Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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