Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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