Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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