Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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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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