George Eliot's Quote - Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones

Quote by George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. – George Eliot

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. – Richard Bach

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Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. – Henry James Sumner Maine

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The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

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