Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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