To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTAny 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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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.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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After all, the true seeing is within.
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