Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOTWe have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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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.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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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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