Quote by George Eliot
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it per

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists