It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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