It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOTDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
More George Eliot Quotes
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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