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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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