In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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After all, the true seeing is within.George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitudewhich was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tonesEppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her.
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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot
Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms character is destiny.
George Eliot
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