Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTIf 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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