Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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