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.
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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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