Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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 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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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