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He (Columbus) enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience


Samuel Eliot Morison

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GEORGE ELIOT For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a wil...
GEORGE ELIOT There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli...
GEORGE ELIOT The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
GEORGE ELIOT But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, a...
EDEN ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT Breed is stronger than pasture.
GEORGE ELIOT