Tag: George Eliot
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot
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We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot