People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Those who trust us educate us.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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 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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We 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.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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