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 ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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