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12346 quotesNo great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Achievement
George Eliot
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Expectation
George Eliot
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Giving
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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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
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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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Abstinence
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 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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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Reality
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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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot
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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Arts and Artists
T. S. 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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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Words
T. S. Eliot
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Friends and Friendship
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