If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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