If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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