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8984 quotesAmong all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
Prophecy
George Eliot
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Obsession
George Eliot
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Facts
George Eliot
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Motives
George Eliot
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence
George Eliot
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
Friends and Friendship
George Eliot
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Genius
George Eliot
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Appearance
George Eliot
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Conceit
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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Marriage
George Eliot
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Men
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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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death and Dying
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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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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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun