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Best Quotes by George Eliot
- Joy is the best of wine.
- It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
- The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And…
- 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…
- You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- 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…
- The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
- There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
- And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
- For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet…
- She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed…
- How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first…
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
- Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
- One can say everything best over a meal.
- How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his…
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