It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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