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.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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