Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOTThe 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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 do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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