To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It 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.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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