Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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