Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTThere are many victories worse than a defeat.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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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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