It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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