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George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

-George Eliot

anger

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

-George Eliot

best

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

-George Eliot

best

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

-George Eliot

best

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

-George Eliot

best

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

-George Eliot

best

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

-George Eliot

best

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

-George Eliot

dad

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

-George Eliot

death

In every parting there is an image of death.

-George Eliot

death

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

death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

-George Eliot

death

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

-George Eliot

death

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

-George Eliot

experience

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

-George Eliot

experience

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

-George Eliot

experience

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

-George Eliot

failure

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

-George Eliot

failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

-George Eliot

failure

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

-George Eliot

failure

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

-George Eliot

faith

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

-George Eliot

family

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

-George Eliot

fear

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

-George Eliot

fear

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

-George Eliot

fear

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

-George Eliot

freedom

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

-George Eliot

future

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

-George Eliot

gardening

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

-George Eliot

god

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

-George Eliot

god

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

-George Eliot

god

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.

-George Eliot

good

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

-George Eliot

good

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.

-George Eliot

great

George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

In every parting there is an image of death.

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.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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