And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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