Any 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.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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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.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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 right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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