I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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