Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Quote by George Eliot

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

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...

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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

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