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.
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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