Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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 best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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