Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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