There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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