Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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