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Quote by George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness o

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Nature
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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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Portraits
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. – Ingrid Newkirk

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I suppose if Id got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. – A. N. Wilson

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In an election, one needs both hope and audacity. – Francois Hollande

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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do. – Faye Dunaway

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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? – Alexis de Tocqueville

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