Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Quote by George Eliot

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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...

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

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

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...

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

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...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast...

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...

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

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

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

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

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of...

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of...

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived