Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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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.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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