Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTI like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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