Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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