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.
GEORGE ELIOTShe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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