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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.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Genius Intolerant Necessarily
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
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
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT

Defeat Many Victory Worse
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOT

Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Echo Live Perpetual Soul
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT

Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOT

Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
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
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware

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