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

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

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Grief
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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Vacations
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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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great
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Fear makes us feel our humanity. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. – Socrates

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Fear

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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Fear

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. – William Wordsworth

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Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

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I live a dual life. On the red carpet, its complete glam. But at home, Im a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful. – Ashley Greene

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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold. – Proverb

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