Quote by George Eliot
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

Category:
Death
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

Category:
Tragedy
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

Category:
Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Expectation
category

In order to win, you must expect to win. – Richard Bach

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Expectation

Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. – Richard M. DeVos

Category:
Expectation

How much of human life is lost in waiting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Expectation

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level… – Eileen Caddy

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Expectation

Random Quotes

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Books

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didnt seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people. – Tucker Carlson

Category:
respect

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Change

If fortune smiles, who doesnt? If fortune doesnt, who does? – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Fate & Destiny