Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOTIf the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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