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 ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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