George Eliot

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

anger

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

best

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

best

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

George Eliot

best

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

best

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

best

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

George Eliot

best

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

dad

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

death

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

death

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