We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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