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12663 quotesI've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Conceit
George Eliot
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrels
George Eliot
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Platitudes
George Eliot
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Action
George Eliot
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
Getting Ahead
George Eliot
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Keep 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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
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 compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Compliments
George Eliot
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Expectation
George Eliot
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Evil
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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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Martyrdom
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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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
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 finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Language
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 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 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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun