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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.


T. S. Eliot

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GEORGE ELIOT Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...
GEORGE ELIOT You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT