The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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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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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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