But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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