And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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