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5086 quotesKeep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Integrity
George Eliot
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Pity
George Eliot
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Achievement
George Eliot
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Giving
George Eliot
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Deeds and Good Deeds
George Eliot
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Impartiality
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 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 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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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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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Compassion
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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
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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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Forgiveness
George Eliot
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
Life and Living
T. S. Eliot
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
Culture
T. S. Eliot
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
Rebellion
T. S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
Risk
T. S. Eliot
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Success
T. S. Eliot
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
People, Other
T. S. Eliot
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun