It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
GEORGE ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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