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

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Science
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot

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Rivers
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. – Marian Anderson

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Fear

God helps those who fear Him. – Abu Bakr

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Fear

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Fear

Im afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker. – Junior Seau

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Fear

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. – Robert Smithson

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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always. – Walter Savage Landor

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Intuition is a faculty of the soul, just as reliable as that of Reason… – R.H. Brown, “It Is All Clairvoyance!” in The Spiritual Magazine, October 1868

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