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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I 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.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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