Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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