Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.George Eliot
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love Are their first poems their best Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections
George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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