I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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