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 ELIOTThere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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 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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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