Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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