Quote by George Eliot
There are many victories worse than a defeat. - George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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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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Hope
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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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Other Quotes from
Fear
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Fear of the future is worse than ones present fortune. – Quintilian

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Fear

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

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Fear

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. – Plato

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Fear

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert

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Fear

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Ive always had a Work hard, play hard attitude to life – I still do – but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach. – Damian Lewis

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Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long. – Proverb

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Flowers

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. – Leo Tolstoy, to Nikolay Strakhov

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There are four stages in a marriage. First theres the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. – Norman Mailer

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