People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOTThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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