Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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