“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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