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77 quotes (Page 3 of 4 pages)Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
Prophecy
George Eliot
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Abstinence
George Eliot
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Wives
George Eliot
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Conscience
George Eliot
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Professions and Professionals
George Eliot
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Conquest
George Eliot
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Language
George Eliot
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Women
George Eliot
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Perfection
George Eliot
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Purpose
George Eliot
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Failure
George Eliot
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
Duty
George Eliot
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Growth
George Eliot
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Privacy
George Eliot
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Pride
George Eliot
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Failure
George Eliot
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Those who trust us educate us.
Education
George Eliot
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity
George Eliot
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Compassion
George Eliot
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Reality
George Eliot
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Life and Living
George Eliot
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Suspicion
George Eliot
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
George Eliot
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Death and Dying
George Eliot
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Men and Women
George Eliot
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun