What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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