Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOTShe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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