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 ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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