Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOTthere 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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