What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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It 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.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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