Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTWe want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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