The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Religious 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.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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