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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

~George Eliot

Topics: After Enough Failure Good Grander Long Much Never Perseverance Striving Than

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

~George Eliot

Topics: Angels Come Golden Gone Know Life Moments Nothing Only Past Rush Sand See Stream Them Us Visit

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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

~George Eliot

Topics: Easy Fibers Friends How Knit Love Never New New Friends Old Out Say Them Think Trace Us Words

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

~George Eliot

Topics: Beat Die Grass Grow Had Hearing Heart Human Human Life Keen Life Like Ordinary Other Roar Should Side Silence Squirrel Vision Which Would

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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

~George Eliot

Topics: Depend Interpretation Key Know Meanings

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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

~George Eliot

Topics: Analogy Dubious Eggs Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities World

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

~George Eliot

Topics: Difficult Each Less Life Live Make Other

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

~George Eliot

Topics: Agreement Delightful Friendships Liking More Most Much Perhaps Personal Those Which

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

~George Eliot

Topics: Bred Cloudy Despondency Egoism Fire Hardly Jealousy Little Needs Passion Sort Uneasy Very Which

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

~George Eliot

Topics: Always Asked Being Between Down Enough Fifty Hardest Seventy Them Things Turn Years You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22nd, 1819

Died: December 22nd, 1880

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