Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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 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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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