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 ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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I 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.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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