There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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