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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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. – 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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Life is best when you are in love. – Michael Moriarty

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Thats what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis its fair, because people would be the best if they werent discriminated against. – Rush Limbaugh

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. – Ambrose Bierce

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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. – Orison Swett Marden

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I wasnt afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty. – Shirley MacLaine

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. – Dag Hammarskjold

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