The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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