Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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