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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.

George Eliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT

Abstain Bless Evidence Fact Man Nothing Say Wordy
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOT

Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOT

Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
Trouble’s made us kin.
GEORGE ELIOT

Made Trouble Us
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOT

Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT

City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOT

Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOT

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