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.
GEORGE ELIOTWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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