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.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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