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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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