It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
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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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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