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 ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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