One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. - George Eliot - Quotesmemo.com

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George Eliot

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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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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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.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

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