The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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