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

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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Vanity
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Those who own much have much to fear. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Fear

African women in general need to know that its OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. – Wangari Maathai

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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

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. – Jean Anouilh

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