To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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It 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.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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