Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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 best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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