Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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