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 ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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