I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
GEORGE ELIOTThat 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure 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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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