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 ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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