There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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 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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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.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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