There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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