Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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 golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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