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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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