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.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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