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Quotes by George Eliot
- The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
- The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- 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.
- The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- There are many victories worse than a defeat.
- 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.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
- 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.
- There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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