Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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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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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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