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.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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