To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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 loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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