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"41 George Eliot Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 November 1819. Died: 22 December 1880 | Author | Poet | Journalist |

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

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

More Must Never Plant
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger Bear Jealousy Lose
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Analogy Dubious Eggs Full
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Affection Altogether Attachment Faults
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Friends Smile Wear Wrinkles
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Accepting Belief Consists Denying
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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.

Anything Christ Doing Faith
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure Man Outside Within
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting Idea Less Life
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Defeat Many Than Victories
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Another Blessed Human Human Soul
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Deeds Determine Much Our
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Apt Conscientious Course Duty
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Giving Know Luxury Must
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Angry Cruelty Direct Effect
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Come Happiness May Prepare
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Acquaintance Beginning Definite Get
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ask Certainty Deed Done
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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?

Compare Each Expect Experience
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters

After Longer Rather Read
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Dead Forgotten Never Our
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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

Be True Best Failure Knows
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Agreement Delightful Friendships Liking
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Break Desire Future No Future
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anything Detect Fold Heart
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Does Done Forward Important
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Forsake Helpful Human More
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Dreary Life Makes Motive
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Been Duties Find Might
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Fly Our Where Wings
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Abstain Blessed Evidence Fact
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Been It Is Never Too Late Late Might
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Brought Done Great Great Things
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Another Duty Fulfill Power
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Agreeable Animals Ask Criticisms
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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.

Account Country Deal Explanation
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Always Asked Being Between
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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
About Childbirth Get Like
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George Eliot Quotes & Sayings