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.
GEORGE ELIOT
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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 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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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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