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.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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