In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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