Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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