Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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 flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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