Quote by George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose th

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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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I wanna change the game in way where Im not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift Ive been given. – Anthony Hamilton

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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. – John Wooden

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free. – Scott Adams

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. – Alexander Pope

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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. – Alexander Graham Bell

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. – Carl Jung

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