The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOTAny 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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