Quote by George Eliot
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfa

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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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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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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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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We live in a world of denial, and we dont know what the truth is anymore. – Javier Bardem

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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and its a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. – Marianne Williamson

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If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme. – Scottish Proverb

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