There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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