The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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