Quote by George Eliot
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyr

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – 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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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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That best portion of a mans life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. – Abraham Lincoln

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You dont despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. – P. J. ORourke

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Look your best – who said love is blind? – Mae West

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. – Emily Dickinson

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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. – Gustave Flaubert

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