It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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