To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Quote by George Eliot
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To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
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George Eliot Quotes
- No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
- I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
- Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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