The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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 right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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