There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTLife began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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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.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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