The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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