Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOTI don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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