Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm

Quote by George Eliot

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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.