There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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