Quote by George Eliot
The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thi

The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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

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I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst. – Hillary Clinton

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Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. – Mitt Romney

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Its a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. – Eddie Vedder

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? – Dwight L. Moody

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, its about us, its about the reader. – Ben Okri

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