There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I 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.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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She 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.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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