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 ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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