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.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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