Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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When 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.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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