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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. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#become #believe #cooperation #international #international cooperation

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

#degree #derived #each #follow #freedom

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

#affection #altogether #attachment #faults #heaven

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#earned #experiences #gallantry #grace #high

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. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ↗

— George Eliot

#common #dissimilar #each #feeling #girl